- Allurus and the potential conduit/Abomination finally arrive at the training arena.
- It is a massive, metal and concrete geodesic polyhedron suspended by a robust steel-reinforced concrete structure beneath it. It is situated within an even larger room that features additional concrete pillars and strategically placed lighting fixtures aligned throughout the space. The area below appears bottomless, with corresponding catwalks leading to four separate entrances positioned around the arena.
- Allurus, the potential conduit/Abomination, and the guards walk along one of the catwalks leading to the entrance.
- The potential conduit/Abomination looks out in awe at the scene.
○ Whoa, look at this place.
● "Who even built all this shit?"
- They finally arrive at the door, but before they enter, Allurus turns around momentarily to whisper something into the potential conduit's/Abomination's ear.
Allurus: Do not mention that narration you've been hearing to anyone besides me and Aya, understand?
○● Uhm, okay?
- Allurus smiles and pats the potential conduit/Abomination on the shoulder before turning back around to instruct the guards to open the door.
Allurus: Alright everyone I'm sorry to keep you all waiting. I'd like to intr-
- The potential conduit/Abomination catches a glimpse of Aya, which then causes The Abomination to panic and scream.
● "Oh, christ! Aaahhh, Shit! Fuck! Keep that goddamn thing away from me! That's the thing that tried to eat us!"
- Everyone looks in confusion as The Abomination begins to freak out upon seeing Aya's form.
Jasper: What, never seen an entity before?
● "A wha-? Wait... can they all hear me right now?"
Everyone: Yes.
● "Damn... well, this is awkward."
Allurus: What are you freaking out about?
○ Yeah, what's your deal?
Aya: "And what do you mean by, 'That's the thing that tried to eat us?'"
● "Ehhhmmm... nothin', you just frea-"
○● AAAAHHHH!
○● Can you please stop doing that?/"STOP FUCKING FRYING MY BRAIN BEFORE I COME OVER THERE AND STOMP ON YOURS, YOU COSMIC FUCK!"
Everyone: .......
Jasper: Hahaha! Whoa, holy shit! I could actually feel that rage. Angry little guy aren't ya?
● "I already don't fucking like you, pencil dick."
- Eu-Meh moves further away as Ganda grabs her arm and pulls her back forward.
Allurus: Tell us the truth you wretch.
● "Fuck, fine. Just stop doing that. I think it's killing my brain cells."
○ Yeah, we already had an incident because of it, so can you just cool it with that? I don't know why I keep being punished for his actions.
- Allurus is unresponsive as his stern stare is locked onto the potential conduit/Abomination.
● 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴... "alright, we were ah... attacked. It happened at our house days before I decided to come and wreck your shit."
○ What?! When did this happen?!
● "Maybe if you stopped drinking so much, you'd know more about what the fuck is going on."
Allurus: Wha-? Who attacked you?
● "It was a thing that looked like her."
Aya: "It looked like me?"
Ganda: An entity attacked you?! Impossible. Why would it do that?
● "I dunno, maybe because you cosmic fucks are devious assholes."
Eu-Meh: Why is he so mean?
- Ganda now looks directly at Allurus, and Allurus then turns to look at him.
Ganda: Allurus, what is this? Why was he attacked by an entity, and if that's true, then why is he here? The entities are holy. They wouldn't just attack someone for no reason.
- Allurus then looks at Aya and begins to panic, for he has a unnerving suspicion as to what it could've been.
- Aya retakes control of the situation.
Aya: "Alright everyone, maybe this something we should discuss later. For now, we are to begin convergence with the new candidate so he can be ready for the challenges to come."
- Aya, Japser and Eu-Meh then go to their positions while Ganda remains staring angrily at the potential conduit/Abomination to which he looks back confused.
○● Uhm, hello?/Got something to say to me asshole?
Ganda: Shattered=((out^?)/1*in)/((in^?)/1*out). You are not fit to be a conduit.
○● Excuse me?/Oh, will you speak English yo-
Allurus: Enough! Ganda, take you position and get ready. And you, follow me.
- Ganda begrudgingly obeys Allurus and goes with the others.
- Allurus then grabs the potential conduit/Abomination by his shoulder and pulls him away to speak momentarily in private.
Allurus: 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘺. D, d, did this entity that attacked you happen to be called, Observer?
○● I don't.../Yeah? Why?
- Allurus feels a cold sweat envelop him.
Allurus: 𝘏𝘶𝘧𝘧, 𝘩𝘶𝘧𝘧. Tell me everything that happened, and I mean everything, down to the last detail. And do not... fucking lie to me.
○ ...
● 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘩... "Okay, uhm, this ehh... Observer thing told me it knew about our plan and wanted to make a counter-offer, but when I tried to hear it out, it started playing out my all my memories in some weird type of projection. It felt like I was... slipping away."
Allurus: It began eating your essence?
● "I guess? I just realized too late it tricked me, but then... but then I snapped out of it and went berserk on its ass."
Allurus: You actually fought off one of The Observers?! That's... that's remarkable.
● "Heh, well... bitch chose the wrong place, wrong time to fuck with me. Killed the fucker too and uh... I kinda ate some of it."
Allurus: ...
○ YOU DID WHAT?!
● "Fucker was trying to get us, so I uh—got it first. I didn't mean to eat it, but man... you should've smelled and tasted what I did. That shit was good, and I mean really, really good. Kinda want more now that I think abo-"
Allurus: No! You must never eat that substance again. I... I can't even believe what I'm hearing. You... actually killed an entity, and an Observer no less. You even ate its essence and are somehow still you. Just what the fuck are you?
● "uhm... like I said, fucker chose a bad time to screw with me."
Allurus: I don't think you fully grasp what I'm saying, but... we'll need talk more abo- wait... how are you feeling right now?
○● Who, him?
Allurus: both of you.
○● exhausted/pissed off
Allurus: I mean, anything abnormal?
- The potential conduit/Abomination pondered and came to an realization.
○ Uh, yeah actually. I've been hearing a ah... faint sound, like a murmur.
● "What, are we sick now or something?"
- Allurus sighs and shakes his head in disapproval.
Allurus: This could be a major problem.
○ Wha-? Just what the fuck did you do us?!
● "Me? I was just defending ourselves, you're welcome by the way."
Allurus: Just... just come with me, so we can get this over with.
- Allurus's hopes for bringing about an end to The Cycle just became seemingly more unfeasible.
Allurus: Aya, I need you to have 'our' paracausal, demolition, and clean up crews at the potential conduit's/reflection's former residence ASAP. And tell Miguel we need an extraction team to aquire an... an entity's remains.
Aya: "What?!"
Allurus: Please, Aya just do it, I'm really struggling to maintain my composure right now.
Aya: "Allurus... has the plan failed?"
Allurus: I don't know... but nothing's happened yet, so let's just focus on the task at hand and press forward.
Aya: "Allurus, please don't tell me all of this has been for nothing."
Allurus: Aya, I swear to you I will do everything in my power to make this right. We will succeed, we must, for everything and everyone that was sacrificed. Our/their suffering will not have been in vain.
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-/~ Dream... do you feel it Dream?
-/~ Do you feel... my pain?
-/~ Do you see... my tears?
-/~ Did you ever love me?
-/~ Or was I simply your escape?
-/≠/~